A fictional portrait of Jiang Ching follows her life from her youth as the unwanted daughter of a concubine, to her search for fame as an actress in Shanghai, to her marriage to revolutionary Mao Zedong, to her role in the turbulent Communist...
The Richard and Judy Best Read of the Year (nominee)
To rescue her family from poverty and avoid marrying her slope-shouldered cousin, seventeen-year-old Orchid competes to be one of the Emperor's wives. When she is chosen as a lower-ranking...
La historia de la última emperatriz de China, una mujer ambiciosa que durante generaciones fue recordada como una gran seductora y una asesina sin escrúpulos. Anchee Min brinda el vívido retrato de un personaje fascinante y, a...
Era todavía una niña cuando decidió desobedecer a su madre y liberarse de las vendas que iban a convertir sus pies en muñones, haciendo de ella una mujer deseable. Éste fue el primer acto de rebelión de la hija de una...
From the bestselling author of Red Azalea and Empress Orchid comes the powerful story of the friendship of a lifetime, based on the life of Pearl S. Buck.
In the small southern town of Chin-kiang, in the last days of the nineteenth century, two...
The last decades of the nineteenth century were a violent period in China"s history marked by humiliating foreign incursions and domestic rebellion, ultimately ending in the demise of the Ch"ing dynasty. The only constant during this tumultuous...
At once a coming-of-age tale and a heart-rending love story, Wild Ginger explores the devastating experience of the Cultural Revolution, which defined Anchee Min"s youth. The beautiful, iron-willed Wild Ginger is only in elementary school when...